mick
Nitro Member
want to start a thread: hopefully the conversation going on about chrome-moly chassis (in the gatornationals thread) can keep going.
IMO TF, and dragsters in general, are such a study in physics; lever action, header thrust, tire growth, it is truly amazing what is taking place,
and FC's performing as they do, with a completely different configuration. it's truly incredible all the forces at work to accelerate these vehicles.
clay had video recently showing slow motion of tire shake in E1 @ gators, able to see severe flexing of wing struts. got me to thinking about
ant's strut tab mount that broke in sonoma last summer. what kind of force is placed on mounting and weld points when runs do not go smooth.
is the normalized tubing something fairly recent? i'm thinking back to 90's when so many TF chassis arced and broke; and leah's incident a couple years ago.
IMO TF, and dragsters in general, are such a study in physics; lever action, header thrust, tire growth, it is truly amazing what is taking place,
and FC's performing as they do, with a completely different configuration. it's truly incredible all the forces at work to accelerate these vehicles.
clay had video recently showing slow motion of tire shake in E1 @ gators, able to see severe flexing of wing struts. got me to thinking about
ant's strut tab mount that broke in sonoma last summer. what kind of force is placed on mounting and weld points when runs do not go smooth.
is the normalized tubing something fairly recent? i'm thinking back to 90's when so many TF chassis arced and broke; and leah's incident a couple years ago.